From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Nov 21 21:40:40 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A2BDDB8AE3 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:40:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dch@skunkwerks.at) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BD0D813C9 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:40:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dch@skunkwerks.at) Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F03620B4D for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:40:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from web6 ([10.202.2.216]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:40:38 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=skunkwerks.at; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=ieh+zCsvwekpt7ULOxgrOQ6rMW qaZJD/gJWwnD/Ad0U=; b=I+h/wxuq//P28YZ93Ms3JMsSkiMN0JrQD+YaGGKb4X bU41kENEtikS7RY/LsyFMHt3vpn0U+awrz7oHh5951dY5PDkhHWFkNBFRvZb5xpM HaZqVr47X5l+jQe1jKQbaJMwIbWCemji/qSukL/Cxun6YPaEERet3dKOcjRPwFHM Y= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=ieh+zC svwekpt7ULOxgrOQ6rMWqaZJD/gJWwnD/Ad0U=; b=YxYVafVoYJd17vrWTvHBlY SbgbGzSVFpekFUmgcFp1mWrE4e5r+v1ZZH1Awl42ZOAggaDwycTrjb9ozOCvBMdm NHcB+i8Dfp+rfcb+wOLsxsHZOSCRn4DWW3YHBfmILdr+6gbjYHzr7M1WDwFAm0Dh TtA/bzhNjvvPM3DZf0hDijIQclCD+ZqfUctNKM/yCgbMTMEr7V0LRHX9Ifljdtda 8BQh5eQMydls/i4cjBW53HB0/JmWHDpQAuU6jZQsWMmdG/O80utmqnBYXo5cmgGS BU/gHcOJrskvTdlfns19QOWcjiTLhBpmb2YSTLsGkslpRtyTmYyN6VnuAFWQycbw == X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id F29CF48003; Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:40:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1511300437.469458.1180306360.267151D0@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Dave Cottlehuber To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-a169161c Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:40:37 +0100 References: <20171111093555.a28a5692.freebsd@edvax.de> <23046.62358.213892.447@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <048B96B6-10B3-4F25-93A8-53CB7EDDCBEE@mail.sermon-archive.info> Subject: Re: Upgrade old System In-Reply-To: <048B96B6-10B3-4F25-93A8-53CB7EDDCBEE@mail.sermon-archive.info> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 21:40:40 -0000 On Mon, 20 Nov 2017, at 10:16, Doug Hardie wrote: > I started to sftp the new system down to the server, and it had a > catastrophic hardware failure. There is no recovery from that as it > appears the processor has failed: possibly from over voltage. Its > difficult to troubleshoot from here. The client has decided to obtain a > "new" system, so I will be installing 11.1 from scratch. At least that > what appears to be the current approach. Hopefully I don't have to make > the 4 hour drive each way. maybe you can walk somebody locally through booting up http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ via USB or ISO. It gives you dhcp + ssh login into ramdisk based minimal FreeBSD sufficient to run the installer manually, or even to transfer in a zpool built somewhere else, ready to go. A+ Dave